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Global Journalist: Aboriginal Australia in Flux
KBIA
Australia's aboriginal people have struggled to preserve their own culture and identity while adapting to the changes wrought by the modern world. It's this struggle that is the subject of "Another Country," a documentary about the community of ...

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Global Journalist
Aboriginal Australia in flux in 'Another Country' [program]
Global Journalist
Australia's aboriginal people have struggled to preserve their own culture and identity while adapting to the changes wrought by the modern world. It's this struggle that is the subject of “Another Country,” a documentary about the community of ...

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The Hindu
Taking the long road
The Hindu
Linda Burney made history in Australia recently, when she won the election to the Lower House of the Federal Parliament. She was the former deputy leader of the New South Wales Labor Party. Linda belongs to Wiradjuri, an indigenous Australian Aborigine.
Recognition is a force that can unite AustraliaHerald Sun

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Does Indigenous Australia Need a #BlackLivesMatter Movement?
teleSUR English
Indigenous Australians make up around 2 percent of Australia's population but account for 27 percent of the national prison population, according to 2015 figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. That means per capita Indigenous incarceration ...

EDUCATING Australians about the nation's indigenous pe
The Sunshine Coast Daily
EDUCATING Australians about the nation's indigenous people could be the key to avoiding the level of racial tension America is experiencing. A CQUniversity lecturer has argued for compulsory learning about the "true history" of Australia and more ...

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EDUCATING Australians about the nation's indigenous pe
Fraser Coast Chronicle
EDUCATING Australians about the nation's indigenous people could be the key to avoiding the level of racial tension America is experiencing. A CQUniversity lecturer has argued for compulsory learning about the "true history" of Australia and more ...

The Guardian
Fears Western Australia will close remote Indigenous communities 'by stealth'
The Guardian
Roxley Foley, son of Aboriginal activist Gary Foley, demonstrates outside Parliament House in Canberra in March 2015 over the Western Australian government's planned closures of remote Aboriginal communities. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP.
Western Australia unveils 'roadmap' to close remote communitiesSBS
Plan favours bigger WA remote communities9news.com.au
Bigger towns key for sustainable north WAPerth Now

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The Guardian
Fears Western Australia will close remote Indigenous communities 'by stealth'
The Guardian
Roxley Foley, son of Aboriginal activist Gary Foley, demonstrates outside Parliament House in Canberra in March 2015 over the Western Australian government's planned closures of remote Aboriginal communities. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP.
Western Australia unveils 'roadmap' to close remote communitiesSBS
Plan favours bigger WA remote communities9news.com.au

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Australian Geographic
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The Martu people were some of the last Indigenous people to make contact with colonised Australia. Hidden by the arid northern deserts of Western Australia, Martu people didn't meet western society until the 1950s and 1960s. In 2002, the Martu people ...

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Lessons for arts markets from Aboriginal art fairs
ArtsHub (subscription)
The four Indigenous art fairs are more important than galleries in providing sustenance to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art market. Desert Mob in central Australia, the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF), the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Lessons for arts markets from Aboriginal art fairs
ArtsHub (subscription)
The four Indigenous art fairs are more important than galleries in providing sustenance to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art market. Desert Mob in central Australia, the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF), the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair ...

SBS
Western Australia unveils 'roadmap' to close remote communities
SBS
Mr Redman says the roadmap, which follows more than 12 months of discussions with Aboriginal leaders and communities, aims to tackle poor living conditions and the unacceptable lack of opportunities for Aboriginal people. “The status quo is unacceptable.

The Guardian
Death of Indigenous woman turned away from NSW hospital 'preventable'
The Guardian
The death of pregnant Indigenous woman Naomi Williams, who was told to take some paracetamol and sent home by emergency department staff at a regional hospital, was preventable, her distraught mother says. Sharon Williams has demanded answers ...

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The Source
Indigenous Australian Duo AB Original Announce Debut Album 'Reclaim Australia
The Source
The release date for the highly anticipated debut album Reclaim Australia from Australian Hip Hop duo A. B. Original (consisting of Trials and Briggs) is set for September / October through Golden Era Records and Australia's first Indigenous Hip Hop ...

ABC Online
Indigenous suicide: Thousands call for royal commission, prevention measures
ABC Online
Over 21,000 Australians have signed the petition since Sunday. Among those calling for a royal commission are this year's National Indigenous Human Rights Awards recipients and several past NAIDOC winners, including Australian of the Year awards ...
These Women Are The Face Of A Heartbreaking EpidemicBuzzFeed News
Organisations push for post-election summitThe Guardian (Australia)

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ABC Online
Indigenous suicide: Thousands call for royal commission, prevention measures
ABC Online
Among those calling for a royal commission are this year's National Indigenous Human Rights Awards recipients and several past NAIDOC winners, including Australian of the Year awards finalist Rosalie Kunoth-Monks. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
These Women Are The Face Of A Heartbreaking EpidemicBuzzFeed News
Organisations push for post-election summitThe Guardian (Australia)

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BMC Blogs Network
Cardiac Rehabilitation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Western Australia
BMC Blogs Network
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Australia. Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) people have higher levels of CVD compared with non-Indigenous people. Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) is ...
Indigenous suicide: Thousands call for royal commission, prevention measuresABC Online
Organisations push for post-election summitThe Guardian (Australia)
These Women Are The Face Of A Heartbreaking EpidemicBuzzFeed News

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West Australian plan favours large indigenous communities
The Australian
The West Australian government will entice Aboriginal families away from the smallest of the state's 274 remote communities by upgrading services and facilities at large centres that may become gazetted towns, under a proposal to transform where and ...

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West Australian plan favours large indigenous communities
The Australian
The West Australian government will entice Aboriginal families away from the smallest of the state's 274 remote communities by upgrading services and facilities at large centres that may become gazetted towns, under a proposal to transform where and ...

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ABC Online
Do police dismiss Aboriginal women experiencing domestic violence?
ABC Online
Over the years we've heard lots of statistics which measure the effects of Aboriginal disadvantage in Australia, but today comes perhaps one of the most confronting statistics yet, from WA's Telethon Kids Institute. It found Indigenous mothers are over ...
High homicide rates for WA Aboriginal mumsWAtoday
Indigenous mums in Australia face high murder rateBBC News

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